6th Match, West Indies v South Africa, Statistical Highlights

It was the 1717th ODI in cricket history

14-May-2001

It was the 1717th ODI in cricket history.

It was West Indies' 423rd and South Africa's 228th match.

It was the 24th match between these two sides. The record now reads: South Africa 17, West Indies 7.

Umpires Steve Bucknor and CR Duncan were officiating in their 82nd and 10th match respectively. Bucknor is now only one short of equalling Lloyd Barker's record of officiating in most matches in West Indies.

Andre Nel was making his ODI debut. He became 65th player to represent South Africa in this form of cricket.

Corey Collymore became 17th player to appear for West Indies in this series. Only twice before West Indies had selected more players in a series (or tournament). In 1977-78 West Indies made use of 19 players in two match series against Australia. However that was the first ever series for West Indies at home and as many as 11 players were making their ODI debut in that series. In 1997-98 West Indies once again selected 19 players in five match home series against England. On two other occasions West Indies has engaged 17 players in a series (or tournament) v Australia in 1983-84 and in World Series Cup in 1996-97. Just to put West Indies' record in right perspective, the world record of most players representing a side in a series is held by India as it used 23 players in Coca Cola Triangular Series in 1997-98.

Brian Lara was getting run-out for the 11th time in his ODI career. This was also the 34th instance for him when he ran out himself or his partner - a new West Indian record. The previous record was of 33 such instances jointly held by Richie Richardson and Carl Hooper. The details:

Total Batsman Self Run-out Partners Run-out Run-outs 34 BC Lara 11 23 33 RB Richardson 15 18 33 CL Hooper 11 22 30 DL Haynes 14 16 22 KLT Arthurton 9 13 21 S Chanderpaul 11 10 21 SL Campbell 6 15 20 CEL Ambrose 9 11 20 JC Adams 11 9

The wicket of Collymore was 50th for Shaun Pollock as South Africa's skipper. He was playing his 35th match. Pollock became second South African after Hansie Cronje and only the eighth player in all ODIs to do so. The accompanying table has the details:

Bowler       For  Mts   Balls Mdns Runs   Wkts Ave   Best 5W 4W   SR   RpO
Wasim Akram  Pak  109   5505    70   3576  158 22.63 5/15  2  9 34.84 3.90
Imran Khan   Pak  139   5554    84   3802  131 29.02 4/27  -  3 42.40 4.11
Kapil Dev    Ind   74   3862    86   2388   91 26.24 5/43  1  1 42.44 3.71
WJ Cronje     SA  138   3690    19   2826   86 32.86 4/33  -  1 42.91 4.60
IVA Richards  WI  106   3042    17   2256   66 34.18 6/41  2  1 46.09 4.45
AR Border    Aus  178   1847     6   1423   56 25.41 3/20  -  - 32.98 4.62
GS Chappell  Aus   49   2169    35   1443   54 26.72 5/15  2  - 40.17 3.99
SM Pollock    SA   35   1824    32   1122   50 22.44 4/36  -  2 36.48 3.69

The four dismissals (three catches and one stumping) by Mark Boucher equalled the existing South African record of most dismissals by a keeper in a match against West Indies. Boucher had also held four catches at Durban on 27-01-1999.

Boucher has now also equalled the record of most dismissals by a keeper in a match against West Indies in West Indies. India's Saba Karim had also held three catches and effected one stumping at Port-of-Spain on 27-04-1997.

Hooper has now led West Indies in 10 matches and faced defeat in nine of them - a success rate of 10.00 %. Among the 67 players who have captained their respective sides in at least 10 matches only three have the worse success rate than Hooper. The details :

Captain       For   Mts  Won   Lost   NR   Tied   Success %
DL Houghton   Zim    17    1    16     0     0      5.88
Akram Khan    Ban    15    1    14     0     0      6.67
MO Odumbe     Ken    13    1    11     1     0      7.69
CL Hooper      WI    10    1     9     0     0     10.00
Aminul Islam  Ban    16    2    14     0     0     12.50
RS Madugalle   SL    13    2    11     0     0     15.38
LRD Mendis     SL    61   11    46     4     0     18.03
A Flower      Zim    52   12    35     3     2     23.08
JJ Crowe       NZ    16    4    12     0     0     25.00

Neil McKenzie was winning his second Man of the Match award.

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